Quote by Haruki Murakami

The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and playing, it's…

— Dave Brubeck

“Jazz washes away the dust of everyday life.”

— Art Blakey

When I was 13, I used to go to a jazz club. The owner of the club became my first business manager. She was…

— Johnny Mathis

[Sweets Edison] was one of the greatest stylists in Jazz of all time. And on top of that, when you listen to him, you…

— Clark Terry

I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.

— Norah Jones

You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in…

— Cab Calloway

“By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.”

— Duke Ellington

Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere.

— Mike Zwerin

Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.

— Art Blakey

I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.

— Gary Lucas

Black people invented jazz. But this story [in La La Land] wasn't ever claiming to be that. It's just a story about two people…

— John Legend

I look back at Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan, and especially Betty Carter, whom I admire the most, and I say, OK, they set…

— Dianne Reeves